Jeg lovede

I dags spilleliste:

1. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
2. The Partisan – Electrelane
3. Ooh La La – Goldfrapp
4. Where Is My Mind? – Frank Black Francis
5. One Night Is Not Enough – Snow Patrol
6. Locked In Tight – The Flaming Stars
7. Where Birds Don’t Fly – Club 8 (SV)
8. The Air That We Breathe – Figurines (DK)
9. Overture – Patrick Wolf
10. Song for No Ears – Memoplay (SV)
11. The Seething Rain Weeps for You – Mew (DK)
12. Mom and Dad – The Bear Quartet (SV)

I am in love with the Bear Quartet right now. Particularly Mom and Dad. Aside from the extremely addictive harmonica part, I think what I like best is a line that comes very early -- actually the very first:

I caught Mom and Dad making out
Realizing for the first time they were real

It’s deliberately unclear, I think -- I’ve never been able to decide for sure whether it’s the child or his parents who are only then realizing that they’re real. I like to think it’s the adults.

As you may or may not know, It’s A Trap! features a weekly Bear Quartet posting. You can read about and download one of their songs every Saturday. You can also stream one or two songs from each of their albums and EPs (this makes about 45 songs) on the official Bear Quartet site. You can also download Birds Are Singing Deep in the Greenery -- although it’s one of my least favorite of their songs; I’d try one of the other avenues first. Oh, and by the way, if anyone has the All Your Life EP -- I WANT TO BUY IT. Preferably on vinyl, although I have a feeling that that doesn’t exist, so I’m willing to accept it on CD, too. I guess.

Now, for my two readers in Portland -- upcoming Modern Age shows:

19. October:

Portland General Electro, the Hugs, the Bugs, the New Bloods -- doors at 7.30, show at 8.

2. November:

Southern Belle, Ghosties, 40 Hundred Thousand Locked-Up Guns, Starfucker, Kickball -- doors at 6.30, show at 7.

Both of these shows are going to be awesome. I’m particularly excited for 2. November -- a couple of my friends’ bands are playing, and, well, there are five (!) bands, and... it’s just going to be awesome. If you’d like to learn more about the Modern Age, look here. Or ask me.

Finally, I think I mentioned there might be some badmouthing of the workplace. This perhaps was a bit misleading -- it’s just a song that has IKEA in the title. (Yes -- if you didn’t know, I do work at IKEA. Can you say ‘obsessed with Scandinavia’?) I can’t pinpoint anything specific, but it does seem kind of derogatory toward the company…

Anyway, in anticipation of the release of The Floor is Made of Lava’s new album, All Juice No Fruit, Hits in the Car has been posting a bunch of their promo tracks this week. You can download all five, including the aforementioned IKEA Did a Job on You, over there. The album itself will be out 15. oktober. The music sounds just like what you’d expect from a band who first grabbed my attention by releasing a song called Do Your Sister -- very hyper, energetic, dance-y. They sound like they’re having a whole lot of fun.

--DL--
Ashtrays Podcast (10-12-07)
Birds are Singing Deep Within the Greenery (The Bear Quartet)
Do Your Sister (The Floor is Made of Lava)